Supple

//ˈsʌpəl//

"Supple" in a Sentence (15 examples)

My body is not as supple as it once was.

She claimed that yoga could make anyone's body supple.

The supple stave slid gracefully through the opening.

Through the practice of yoga, the students’ bodies became more supple.

The author's language is vivid, supple and nuanced.

Global supply chains, meanwhile, have grown both tighter and more supple since the late 1990s—the result of improving information technology and of freer trade—making routine work easier to relocate.

supple joints

supple fingers

My hands are supple and small. A woman in a bread shop once said to me: “You have the hands for making fine little pastries.”

a supple horse

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If punishment […] makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe

The Stones (a Miracle to Mortal View, / But long Tradition makes it paſs for true) / Did firſt the Rigour of their Kind expel, / And ſuppled into ſoftneſs, as they fell; […]

They should supple our stiff wilfulness.

a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will

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